Bank-check protector.



,J. 'W. DEN-NINGTON.

BANK CHECK PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION PI. ED NOV. 30, 1909.

1,012,608. Patented Dec. 26,1911.

Do NOT PAY OVER ammo 0 JAMES WALTON DENNINGTON, OF MABEN, ALABAMA.

BANK-CHECK PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1911.

Application filed November 30, 1909. Serial No. 530,646.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. DENNING- 'roN, citizen of the United States, residing at Maben, in the county of Jeflerson and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bank- Check Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to perforators and has forits object to provide a compara tiv'elysimple and thoroughly efficient device of this character for perforating or otherwise marking on a check the face value thereof so to prevent an unauthorized person from raising the amount and fraudulently obtaining more than the check originally called for.

A further object is to provide a perforator including a supporting base adapted to be inserted between the leaves of a check book and provided with a plurality of spring fingers having perforating needles depending therefrom and adapted to pierce the check when said fingers are depressed.

A still further object of the invention is generally to improve this class of devices so as to increase their utility, durability and efliciency, as well as to reduce the cost of manufacture.

Further object advantages will appear in the following description, it being understood that various changes in form, proportions and minor details of construction may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claim.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction and the means for effecting the result, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a per forating device constructed in accordance with myinvention, showing the position of the perforat'or in a check book when not in use.v Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the device removed froin the check book. Fig. 3 is a front elevation ofi the same; Fig. 4 1s a transverse sectional showing the manner of using the perforator; Fig. 5 is a plan view of one of the spring fingers detached.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views. ofthe drawings by the same reference characters.

The device comprises a'supporting base including a flat elongated plate 5.preferably formed of metal of such a width as to permit the plate to'be readily housed betwijveen the leaves of a check book indicated a Secured to the upper surface of the plate 5 at one longitudinal edge thereof is a bar 7 preferably extending the entire length of the plate and to which are riveted or otherwise rigidly secured a plurality of spring fingers 8. One of the fingers 9 is wider thanthe remaining fingers and printed or otherwise represented on the upper face of said fingers are the words Do not pay over. Some of the remaining fingers 8 are numbored from one to nine inclusive, while others are provided with symbols indicating the dollar mark and period.

Depending from the lower faces of the fingers 8 and 9 are a plurality of perforatmg needles 10 corresponding to the symbols or subject matter on the upper faces of the fingers, the free ends of the fingers being spaced from the upper surface of the plate 5 so that when said fingers are depressed, the needles 10 will pierce the check.

In using the device, the check properly the needles carried thereby, to perforate the check with the words Do not pay over. The operator then depresses the fingers 8 bearing the numeralsthereon corresponding to the face value of the check which correspondingly perforates the check withthe face value thereof so as to prevent an unauthorized person from raising the. amount and fraudulent- 1y obtaining more than the check originally called for,

When the device is not in use, the same is positioned between the leaves of the check book beneath the cover 11 and in which position, the cover will efiectually house the perforator so as to permit said perforator together with the check book to be readily carried in the pocket.

Attention is here called to the fact that the inner edge 12 of the spacing member or bar '7 forms a sto orabutment for engagement with the a jacent edge of the check when the latter is inserted inthe perforator. It will also be noted that the lower or pointed ends of the needles arenormally'space d I above the adjacent plate 5 to permit the ready insertion of the check within or the removal of said check from the perforator.

The device is extremely simple in construction and may be manufactured and placed on the market at a comparatively small cost.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A portable perforator for check books including a flat relatively thin supporting plate, a spacing bar secured to the upper face of the plate near one longitudinal edge thereof and of the same lengthas said plate,

end fingers of equal width secured tothe spacing bar, and a plurality of intermediate fingers of less width than the end fingers secured to said spacing bar between the end lingers, the lower faces of the intermediate fingers and the lower face of one of the end with 1,012,608

fingers being provided with depending permediate fingers being of a length equal to the width of the plate and disposed in the same horizontal plane to present a smootlrj unobstructed surface normally parallalwith the plate for contact with the cover 'otthe check book, said plate andfingers hemmetirely housed between the cover of thQTlOOlE when the latter is closed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES WALTON armament. ii-SQ} I Witnesses:

. W R. Snromer,

G. W. REED.

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' Washington, ID. G. 

